Oh Dear: How Cardinal Cushing helped bring contraception to Massachusetts

Philip Lawler links to an article in Boston College Magazine about how Cardinal Cushing and the Archdiocese of Boston tacitly promoted – or allowed themselves to be used to promote – the legalization of contraception in Massachusetts: …the archdiocese had begun quietly planning for a change in the law even before Dukakis [yes, that Dukakis,… Continue reading Oh Dear: How Cardinal Cushing helped bring contraception to Massachusetts

Poor Joplin

>Aggressive fungus compounds tornado trauma: Kendra Williams, the administrator of community health and epidemiology for the health department, said the common fungus likely came from soil or vegetative materials imbedded in the skin by the force of the tornado. HT: MCJ

Catholic Online’s culture of theft

CatholicCulture.org’s take (emphases added): This site has a long history of carelessness concerning fidelity to the Magisterium. Although its material is constantly changing, there is a continued pattern of failure to screen out organizations and materials which are unfaithful to the teachings of the Church…. There have been over $200,000 worth of judgments and liens… Continue reading Catholic Online’s culture of theft

Catholic Online plagiarizing from Atheism.about.com?

Yesterday I wrote about finding some Ratzi-the-Nazi disinformation in a Catholic Online article. I posted a comment on Catholic Online about the most glaring issue. My comment was posted, and the article was corrected – but there was no acknowledgement that the article had been changed, and no response to my comment. Last night, I… Continue reading Catholic Online plagiarizing from Atheism.about.com?